As a child I wanted to legally change my name .... but only when playing the board game.

The theme is 20 years or so too old IMHO. But would be very fun to play. I just do not think it would draw in the crowd they are targeting lately.

To my knowledge it was just the playfield drawing and a mad version of "Rudy from Funhouse" face was made(along with other parts). Don't believe it made it past that stage.

Hey Adam,I use to collect Mad Mag's too. I still have hundreds of them from the late 50's to around the early 2000's. My son reads them now and he now collects the newer ones as well as a lot of my old doubles. I can't remember exact dates anymore but I still have a straight set including Super Specials from the around the end of the 60's until I lost interest in collecting them around the year 2000. I couldn't walk past an old book store without going right through the place.
I'm planning on a meet some time in the coming months, if you can make it down to Albury then I'll show you. Hopefully I'll have the Genie by then and you'll have to see the Flash Gordon, it plays great.

I always thought MAD magazine would be a good theme too. Spy vs. Spy, kaputnik, Arthur, the zeppelin, etc. I've got 8 boxes full of old MADs, plus all the paperbacks, other books, and a ton of paraphernalia related to MAD. I stopped buying new issues a couple years ago as they just aren't funny to me anymore and all of the anthology books that are released are just the same rehashes of the old classics. When William Gaines passed, I think the writing on was on the wall that it wouldn't be the same.

I think I have an embroidered patch made by Data East.

And I believe it's featured in the PGJ Calendar

+1 would be a great theme

I loved that mag as a kid.

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I still have a subscription! Would love a pin...

Sadly this is probably the closest we will ever come to the real thing.

John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836

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Sega made a Mad themed slot in the 60's. Three different versions were made. http://www.collectmad.com/collectibles/sloth.htm

More info. on the Mad slots. http://segaretro.org/Early_Sega_slot_machines

Data East did a Whitewood but it got scraped.

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3440

"Never produced past a whitewood, never programmed, only translites and the "Rudy" head exist.

Joe Kaminkow stated at the Chicago Expo 2012 that Gary Stern did not produce this game over his own concerns that it wouldn't sell in the German market. No further explanation was given."

I said this a while back on the forum, that Mad pinball would make a great theme for a machine.

The machine looks interesting.

I was a big Don Martin fan. Hilarious stuff!

Could be some very cool unique toys for a Spy -vs- Spy pinball machine.
Lots of ideas to choose from.

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I’ve had this in my head, a 2 player EM Spy vs Spy where certain playfield items cause the score to switch to the second player. The player would have to chose between letting the ball drain or shooting a target to regain control. I can also envision a black ball and a white ball. This would be a huge project, but over the top cool.